Friday, May 14, 2010

And, finished...For the final touches, I added reflections and highlights to define the body. The overall picture ended up looking brighter than I expected, hmmm....-_-Dunno if it`s too saturated but at least the high contrast is acheived, wich was my main goal.

I liked the way the waves ended up. The tail looks a bit skinny for this guy´s frame, but I liked the texture of it

So, there you go.The process I go thru to create a piece.Of course, I go back a bunch of times to fix all kinds of parts, maybe with more practice I´ll learn to work at a faster pace

Wednesday, May 12, 2010

I found that large patches of light define the shapes better than a bunch of small patches here and there....It`s also SUPPOSSED to make the rendering easier, but I always have troubles deciding wich parts to shade ( I wanted to shade that tricep so bad but it lookd awful)

I decided to add a single strong light source, it hits his back and butt.I`m starting to render water, sand and scales. The tail´s fins look a bit odd, I guess I`ll change it again later. The skin-fish tail division is also bugging me, but it will be on of the last parts I work on, so bear with it for a while

Anyway, is slowly coming together. Some reflective light and speculars should do the trick

Yay, halfway there!Good thing about dark layouts: I barely need to do shadingBad Thing about dark layouts: I will spend double the time adding reflections...XPYou`ll see what I mean next time...

Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Here I layed down the basic scheme.As I said in the last post, the pic is already too cheescake to add a sunset color hue, so I went for a night setting instead, I also think it looks sexier, what do you think?:P

So, the palette is very limited, bunch of blues and pale purples, then just a dip of yellow for skin and highlights.Here`s the basic idea. I chose bakground colors in harmony with this guy`s color palette.I like it, but is sorta flat

So, I went ahead and greyed most of the colors out. I know I lost a lot of details in the background, but look how deep and rich his skin looks (Yumm...)

Now, the color match is more or less achieved. I may change some of the colors ahead, but won`t be as drastic.

Next time, I`ll start sketching shadows and basic lights, hope to see you then

Saturday, May 8, 2010

Lately, I recived a few mails asking to see what is the process I follow to make a picture.Although I don`t really have any secret techinque or anything I`d be glad to share this process, if anyone is interested.

So, here`s how it goes...

I`ve had this pic for quite a while, and now I`ve finally have the time to color it, yay!! Please forgive the sloppy pencil work, it`ll be less noticeable once the color starts kicking in

I saw this pose on another artist`s website, hope he/she doesn`t mind. Of course, I changed the angle, position and overall placement, I wanted this kid to have a " come hither" look while showing off that booty heh heh

The composition is sorta cheesy, but I`ll try and make it more intersting with some strong contrast, (or at least I`ll try)